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The nature of a support group is to create a safe space that can hold, absorb, and help its members process the full spectrum of experiences encountered as we learn to live with the reality of a CLL diagnosis.
By Peter Titlebaum, EdD – Patient Why is it that men do not usually reach out for help from a support group? Having already written two articles on my journey with CLL, I must be qualified to write on this subject, despite my male gender. Talk about stereotyping! However,
By Paul Bildstein – Patient I was diagnosed in 2009 at age 60 with CLL (Trisomy 12, unmutated) after a routine blood test. Initially on watch and wait, I was treated with FCR in 2012. The remission only lasted a year and by then I was also 17p deleted.